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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I’m really frustrated that the art teacher at my child’s ES got destaffed [/b]because the new principal decided she wanted to add an instructional coach.

As a teacher in another school, I’ve never found an instructional coach to have an actual positive impact on student learning.  I’m sure they help take lots of tasks off admin plates.  They lead CLTs and coordinate testing an all kinds of great things for admin.  But I honestly don’t think it shouldn’t be allowed for principals to take instructional staffing and divert it to create non-instructional positions because it benefits them.

Anyway, that’s the only person I personally know who got destaffed this year.  And it stinks.[/quote]

Why are you bothered by this? It doesn’t affect one single kid at your school. Every kid has to have art, so clearly the school has enough staffing. It’s not like the principal can destaff an art teacher and then set up a schedule where some classes don’t have art. Art is a mandatory class. If an art teacher is destaffed, it means the school has fewer kids enrolled for the next year and that extra art teacher isn’t needed.

Or are you suggesting that this principal should let the art teacher stay, have just a few classes to teach and then sit around with 10+hours of planning a week? How does that help with student achievement? [/quote]

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